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Date "ROUGHING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1855. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | Upgrading of run-of-mill feed either to produce a low-grade preliminary concentrate or to reject valueless tailings at an early stage. Performed by gravity on roughing tables, or in flotation in rougher circuit.See also:cleaning. (references) |
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Crosswords: ROUGHING |
| English words defined with "ROUGHING": Finishing rolls. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ROUGHING": bindery operator, BINDERY WORKER ♦ finishing tooth, form roughing cutter ♦ gashing cutter, gear roughing cutter, GEAR-SHAVER SET-UP OPERATOR ♦ lathe operator, low tooth ♦ MILL HAND, PLATE MILL, MILL RECORDER, COMPUTERIZED MILL ♦ puddle roll ♦ ROUGHER OPERATOR, roughing tool ♦ semicontinuous mill, STONE-LATHE OPERATOR ♦ table worker, TIN ROLLER, HOT MILL. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You call this roughing it? (Troop Beverly Hills; writing credit: Pamela Norris) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Roughing the Cub (1913) | |
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| "ROUGHING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ROUGHING" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 100% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "ROUGHING": form roughing cutter ♦ gear roughing cutter ♦ roughing rolls ♦ roughing tool. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "ROUGHING": Roughing-in, roughing-out, roughing-up. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
roughing | 11 |
roughing it | 10 |
it mark roughing twain | 5 |
filter roughing | 3 |
camp day it roughing | 3 |
by it mark roughing twain | 3 |
roughing gouge | 2 |
roughing it in the bush | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ROUGHING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 粗磨在 (Roughing-in). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | skrubstål (roughing tool), i grovvaerket valses blokkene til slabs eller halvfabrikata (ingots are worked to slabs or semi-finished products by means of roughing mills), grovvalser (muck roll, roughing pass), form-skrubfræser (form roughing cutter, gashing cutter, gear roughing cutter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | tandwielvoorfrees (form roughing cutter, gashing cutter, gear roughing cutter), puddelijzerwals (muck mill, muck roll, roughing pass), in de blokwalserij worden de blokken tot halfprodukten gewalst (ingots are worked to slabs or semi-finished products by means of roughing mills), afruwbeitel (roughing tool). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | rouhintaterä (roughing tool), valannevalssaus (muck roll, roughing pass), karkeisläpäisy (muck roll, roughing pass), hammasmuodon rouhintajyrsin (form roughing cutter, gashing cutter, gear roughing cutter), esivalssaus (muck roll, roughing pass), ajo karkeisuran läpi (muck roll, roughing pass). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | un train continu bandes chaud comporte généralement 4 cages dégrossisseuses et 6 7 cages finisseuses (a continuous hot-rolled strip mill generally has 4 roughing stands and 6-7 finishing stands), taraud ébaucheur diamètre de filetage réduit (undersized full form roughing tap), outil d'ébauche (roughing tool), on passe du lingot l'ébauche ou au demi-produit par des trains dégrossisseurs (ingots are worked to slabs or semi-finished products by means of roughing mills), fraise de forme d'ébauche (form roughing cutter, gear roughing cutter), fraise d'ébauche (form roughing cutter, gear roughing cutter), cylindre dégrossisseur (muck roll, roughing pass), cylindre ébaucheur (billet roll, muck roll, roughing pass). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | aufrauhend. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κύλινδρος ξεχονδρίσματος (muck roll, roughing pass), μια συνεχής συστοιχία ελάστρων για την παραγωγή λωρίδων αποτελείται συνήθως από 4 εκχονδριστικά έλαστρα και 6-7 έλαστρα τελειώματος (a continuous hot-rolled strip mill generally has 4 roughing stands and 6-7 finishing stands), φρέζα μορφής προδιαμόρφωσης οδοντώσεων (form roughing cutter, gashing cutter, gear roughing cutter), εργαλείο εκχόνδρισης (roughing tool), τα πλινθώματα γίνονται ημικατεργασμένα προϊόντα ή ημιπροϊόντα με συστοιχίες εκχονδριστικών ελασμάτων (ingots are worked to slabs or semi-finished products by means of roughing mills). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megmunkálás (elaboration, fashioning, finishing, finishing off, forming, get-up, machining, moulding, refining, second working, shaping, surface-planning, turning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | un treno continuo per nastri a caldo è generalmente costituito da 4 gabbie sbozzatrici e da 6-7 gabbie finitrici (a continuous hot-rolled strip mill generally has 4 roughing stands and 6-7 finishing stands), si passa dal lingotto allo sbozzato o al semilavorato attraverso treni sbozzatori (ingots are worked to slabs or semi-finished products by means of roughing mills). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | "경 안에 (Roughing-in). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oughingray um transportador contínuo de fita a quente compreende geralmente quatro desbastadores e 6 a 7 caixas de acabamento (a continuous hot-rolled strip mill generally has 4 roughing stands and 6-7 finishing stands), passa-se do lingote ao produto semiacabado em transportadores desbastadores (ingots are worked to slabs or semi-finished products by means of roughing mills), ferramenta de desbaste (roughing tool), cilindros laminadores (muck roll, roughing pass). (various references) los trenes de laminación desbastadores transforman los lingotes en desbastes o productos semiacabados (ingots are worked to slabs or semi-finished products by means of roughing mills), el tren de laminación continuo de banda en caliente posee generalmente cuatro desbastadores y seis o siete cajas acabadoras (a continuous hot-rolled strip mill generally has 4 roughing stands and 6-7 finishing stands), cilindros de desbaste (muck roll, roughing pass). (various references) götvals (billet roll, muck roll, roughing pass), förvals (billet roll, muck roll, roughing pass). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"ROUGHING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: boughing, Rikushin, Roghani, rougeing, Roughan, Roushan, Ruffino, Rughani, troughing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ROUGHING" (pronounced ru"fing) |
| 5 | r u" f i ng | ruffing. |
| 4 | -u" f i ng | bluffing, huffing, puffing, rebuffing, snuffing, stuffing. |
| 3 | -f i ng | beefing, briefing, chafing, choreographing, coffing, coughing, debriefing, doffing, dwarfing, engulfing, fireproofing, golfing, goofing, knifing, laughing, leafing, morphing, offing, photographing, proofing, roofing, rustproofing, sniffing, spiffing, spoofing, staffing, strafing, surfing, waterproofing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-g-h-i-n-o-r-u" | |
-1 letter: roguing, rouging. | |
-2 letters: goring, gringo, urging. | |
-3 letters: giron, going, groin, guiro, houri, ohing, rhino, rough, ruing, unrig. | |
-4 letters: girn, giro, gong, grig, grin, grog, hogg, hong, horn, hour, hung, inro, iron, nigh, nogg, noir, nori, ring, ruin, rung. | |
-5 letters: ghi, gig, gin, gnu, gor, gun, hin, hog, hon, hug, hun, ion, nog, noh, nor, our. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-g-h-i-n-o-r-u" | |
+1 letter: grouching. | |
+2 letters: roughening. | |
+3 letters: churchgoing, furloughing, outcharging, roughdrying, roughhewing. | |
+4 letters: autographing, churchgoings, neighbouring, roughcasting, roughhousing. | |
+5 letters: overslaughing, thoroughgoing. | |
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